Saturday, March 4, 2017

Donald Trump claims Barack Obama wire tapped his Trump Tower

In an astonishing series of early morning tweets, the firebrand President claimed his predecessor had bugged his phones during the “very sacred election process”, slamming the allegations as a “Nixon/Watergate” scandal.

Trump, who started the Twitter rant at 5:30am US eastern time, branded the claims a “new low” before appearing to call Obama a “bad (or sick) guy”.

The property tycoon turned politician wrote: “How low has President Obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!”

Watergate refers the early 1970s political scandal which forced the resignation of Republican President Richard Nixon when it emerged that the Democratic party’s headquarters had been broken into.

“Dance like no one is watching, love like you’ve never been hurt; sing like no one is listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth. "

I guess we need to change it to ......"Be careful!! everyone is watching, listening, recording your every move to warp, twist and use against you. Be paranoid like never before. Live like it is Hell on Earth." Or living in Soviet Russia where this has been the norm for decades.

Which is NOW the norm with our government, spying on us. Thanks President Bush for the NSA (/sarcasm) Heck. Even the grocery store is spying on us and recording what we buy. We live in a repressive police state and are not free....we just don't want to admit it..........yet.

In a statement, Kevin Lewis, a spokesperson for Obama, rejected Trump's assertion. "A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice," he said.

"As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false," he added.

Trump did not cite the source of his information, but the brash accusation may constitute an acknowledgement that officials at the highest levels of government were at one time probing his business and financial dealings. Last year, conservative-leaning websites cited unnamed sources saying that the FBI had obtained a Foreign Intelligence Service Act (FISA) court warrant—a request that would have originated from the Justice Department but not the White House.

In a statement, Kevin Lewis, a spokesperson for Obama, rejected Trump's assertion. "A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice," he said.